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The Mayor says
Before you write your own, let us sharpen your eye. A writer who can tell a pillar from a plank can build an argument that carries a stranger across.
Three ways to sharpen your eye before you write your own. No grades here, just practice.
Pillar or plank?
Send each one to where it belongs.
Match the part of the bridge
Tap a part of the Bridge on the left, then the sentence that does its job on the right.
The part
The sentence
Finish the bridge
Here is the Mayor's bridge for "our school's phone ban should stay," with the answer to the other side missing. Which sentence names the strongest objection and answers it fairly?
- The claim Our school's phone ban should stay.
- A pillar The ban made the lunchroom a place where people actually talk.
- The other side, answered
- The far bank Tell your student council you want the ban to stay.